The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-07
GENERAL awws NorEs.
Items OF Interest Gathered from FR.!oHs
Quarters.

Venice is slowly SINKING lnfo lie sea
Judge Francis T. Anderson Of LeXag-
ton, Va, is dead.
A carload of cotton was burned ct Pros
perity yesterday.
No. rs Broadway, New York city, WAS
burned last night. Loss $50. 600.
For the month of November the Govern
ment paid out over $1S,OO0,0OO On pen
sions.
The revenues CT the Government FROM
all sources during the month of November
amounted to about $50 300, 600.
The Anarchists have Ecen presented with
handsome cemetery lot in Chicago for the
burial of the men who wers hanged.
The Grand Lodge Of South Carolina
Free Masons will hold their annual conter-
erce in Charleston on December is and II.
A disratch from London announces that
Mr.. Sheehy, NJ P, has been arrested and
is now in Sligo prison.
A number of members of the Chamber
of Deputies yesterday requested President
Grevy not to resign.
A farmer named lrby yesterday shot and
killed two colored men who attacked INN
On his farm in Marlboro county.
NJ. Gaunt, wealthy colored resident q
Nenia, O., has deeGed his property, viiueu
at s3U. .0rO, to WLlberfor c University.
Mr.. E. II. Moreland yesterday bought
| in Charleston S15u, ,0A0 il Confederate bills
at twenty-five cents per Thousand.
Mrs. Mary J. Robertson, for over thirty
years president of the Calhoun Moaumeni
Association in Charleston, died yesterday.
During the present intense cola il toe
| Northwest steam heating OF railroad traits
has been practiced With entire Success.
w. R. Fuller, State Auditor of Arkan-
sas. died yesterday. He was twice e!ect-d
| Governor
An explosion of choke damp occurred
Yesterday in a colliery in Poreu.ba, Slles;;:.
killing thirteen miners and woundlng many
others.
A London dispatch says that Sullivan
and Mitchell were matched last night to
fight TO the finish, with bare knuck!es, Tor
e5l0 side.
Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas says
that the Prohibition party is the only ore
that is increasing in numbers. He will not
be candidate for the Presidency on any.
terms.
John H. Parker, foreman of the planing
mill at Darby's mills, in Palatka, Fla, was
caught in the shafting yesterday afternoon
and was killed before the engine copd be
stopped.
DR.. Telschow, court dentist, has been
summoned to San Reno to operate On the
Crown Princes teeth This would seem
to indicate that the Princes condition has
improved.
The building of the Strobridge Litho
graphing Com pany in Cincinnati was de
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss
estimated at a half million; insured Tor
Sl50,O0O. Q
Michael O'Brien, tramp, who bru!ally
outraged Miss McGregor in Alamosa, Col,
recently, was taken from Jail Wednesday
night by citizens and hanged. The recov-
cry of the girl is doubtful.
Dan Swygert purchased yesterday from
DIVER Brothers the great colt Tremeut for
1000, this being the largest sum ever
paid in this country for a homc-bred thor.
oughbred for stud purposes.
A thirteen-year- colored boy attempted
Yesterday to board y freight train at AT
| lanta and steal ride to Chattanooga. lie
fell, and his left foot was so badly crushed
as to necessitate amputation.
A news vender at Killarney has been SEN
fenced to months imprisonment for sell
ing copies of United Ireland containing re-
ports of meetings Of suppressed branches
of the National League.
The Car has commuted to degradation
to the ranks the sentences Of eighteen
young officers who were convicted Of en-
gagiug in a revolutionary conspiracy and
sentenced 10 exile in Siberia.
Henry Overstaltz, president of the insol-
vent Fifth National Bank OF st. Louis, and
ex Mayor of that city, died yesterday ct
heart disease. He did not know that the
bank had suspended.
The surveying party, which under direc
ton of the Nicaragua Canal Construction
Company will make the final surveys,
sailed on the steamer Rondo from New
York Yesterday. The survey will not be
completed until April or May.
b The commanders of the different army
corps in France have received sealed IL
structions which they are to opcn IN The
event of an outbreak following The election
of a new President.
President Cleveland has made $50, ,Hf0
by the increase in value of "Red Top, the
country place he bought near Washington.
| Secretary Whitney is reported to have done
better, by realizing $4,000 profit by the
sale of land he bought in the vicinity
A shock of earthquake was felt at Choir
! ley, county of Lancaster, England, at :
o'clock yesterday morning. a rambling
noise accompanied the shock. Buildings
shook and people ran out Of their houses.
No serious damage was done.
The corporation of Dublin unanimously
elected Mr.. Sexton Lord Mayor yesterday,
to succeed Mr.. Sullivan In speech lie
said that every day developed new attacks
upon the lives and liberties of the Irish
people.
Maria Steel, negro woman, died in Sd
vannah yesterday, after having reached the
remarkable age Of 115 years. She was
born in Rockingham county, North Caro-
lima, in 1772. She leaves two children,
who are now very Old men. +
Intense excitement prevailed in France
yesterday. Some of President Grevy's bit
terest foes of two weeks ago now beseccl
him to withhold his contemplated rcSigna-
| ton. The President decided to make no
communication to the Chamber of Depu
| ties.
Doc Wilson, an emp!oye of the South
Carolina Railroad, met with painful inju-